How would one describe Szabeta?  She is considered a beauty of her kind with skin which on others of her complexion might be considered 'olive' but in her case, and particularly when she is dancing, 'honey-hued' or 'sun-kissed' might be a better description.

Her hair is long and combed straight until it shines with a lustre of its own.  In texture, it could be compared to Mandalan silk and in colour, in lustre, to polished obsidian.

Then there are her eyes.  The colour of emeralds but so alive they say, whether with fury or joy or puckish humour as if those emeralds had been animated by a master talismancer.

She is not tall and she is slight, with the figure of a young virgin but when she dances...  ahh when she dances, she looks as unlike a virgin as it is possible to seem.

And then she wears vibrant cosmetics and colourful clothes as if she were a one woman show, a circus perhaps, or the most wonderful festival.  Ahh Szabeta!